Audience: Academic and research active staff

The conference will address a range of themes relating to Open Access, including perspectives from researchers, publishers and funders.

Confirmed speakers and conference topics include:

Dr Alma Swan, Director, Key Perspectives, UK
The present Open Access landscape and what might be over the horizon

Dr David Prosser, Director, SPARC Europe, UK
Repositories and research publications: policies and politics

Frank Scholze, Stuttgart University, Germany
Metrics in an Open Access environment: an infrastructure for collecting and aggregating usage data

Dr Astrid Wissenburg, Director of Information and Communication, Economic and Social Research Council, UK
RCUK position on scholarly publishing

Nick Evans, Chief Operating Officer, Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP
Institutional Repositories and Open Access – a threat to society publishers or an opportunity?

The Conference will be chaired by Professor Nicholas Mann, Dean of the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Registration required:

Yes

Free:

Yes